JAMES

See also:

• BROWNE
• BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD (18,1–1891)
• BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS (1705-1760)
• JAMES BROWNE (1793–1841)
• BROWNE, MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES, COUNT VON, BARON DE CAMUS AND MOUNTANY (1705-1757)
• BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735)
• BROWNE, ROBERT (1550-1633)
• BROWNE, SIR JAMES (1839–1896)
• BROWNE, SIR THOMAS (1605-1682)
• BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591–1643)
• BROWNE, WILLIAM GEORGE (1768-1813)

BROWNE (1793–1841)  , Scottish man of letters, was born at Whitefield, Perthshire, in 1793 . He was educated at Edinburgh and at the university of St Andrews, where he studied for the church . He wrote a " Sketch of the History of Edinburgh," for Ewbank's Picturesque Views of that city, 1823—1825 . In 1826 he became a member of the Faculty of Advocates, and obtained the degree of LL.D. from King's College, Aberdeen . His works include a Critical Examination of Macculloch's Work on the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (1826), Apercu sur les Hieroglyphes d'Agypte (Paris, 1827), a Vindication of the Scottish Bar from the Attacks of Mr Broughton, and History of the Highlands and Highland Clans (1834—1836) . He was appointed editor of the Caledonian Mercury in 1827; and two years later he became sub-editor of the seventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, to which he contributed a large number of articles . He died in April 1841 .